That’s precisely what I was thinking. Obviously I don’t want everyone to die but if you forced me to choose between apocalypse scenarios, I’m picking something painless and instantaneous- like a super-virus that activates immediately or a bullet in the head-over being slowly tortured to death via something like nuclear radiation or extreme heat
Altman claimed that the company would “amend our deal” to add the prohibition of “deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of US persons or nationals.”
…so the original statement was a lie then? the CEO who is notorious for being a liar lied? I am very surprised about this information.
I mean yeah I guess in a competition between getting a bullet directly through my brain, getting all my limbs chainsawed off with my head last and being drowned in boiling water, the bullet would win every time. Though the real perversely funniest outcome is if superintelligence turns out to be completely impossible and we fuck ourselves over with garbage to mediocre AI embedded in all our critical infrastructure
another Onion banger for these trying times
” Then you wake up in a cold sweat and can’t breathe at all, almost like you’re drowning—I guess from the weight of untold mobs of people leaping on you and ripping you apart”
the real Scam Altman would never feel any kind of remorse or emotion about this
This piece on how doomers and rationalists have made everything worse with their “AGI is nigh” shtick and ended up giving AI companies way more power than they should and getting chatbots into the military, where they will almost certainly fuck up and kill people
God I hate Anthropic defenders pretending they’re the saints of the Earth
I do think the “all of humanity” stuff is a little overblown, but this is legitimately dumb and dangerous and will get a ton of innocents killed + allow the military to dodge accountability. Letting ChatGPT potentially run an autonomous weapon with zero oversight is phenomenally stupid and the tech is nowhere near reliable enough to be able to pull off the kind of precision and decision making military campaigns require, which is what Marcus is saying
this truly is the dumbest timeline huh
Incredibly ballsy move to keep using their tech after you literally branded them a supply chain threat and implied you would take legal action against them, but that’s this administration for ya
(they did say there would be a six-month phase out period after which if Anthropic still didn’t comply, they’d force them to, but still)
Late on Friday, rival OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, Amazon and others, announced its own deal to deploy technology in the Defense Department’s classified network. CEO Sam Altman on X said the Pentagon shared its principles for human responsibility over weapon systems and for having no mass U.S. surveillance.
So safe to assume that’s complete bullshit right? Altman literally got fired from his company for being a massive liar, and as I already mentioned OpenAI already got caught working with the US Government to create a surveillance system. His announcement on shitter already got community noted as well:
"Government officials have contradicted Sam’s claim, saying OpenAI will allow the DoW to use their models for “all lawful purposes”. This could allow for uses Anthropic refused to engage in, namely mass surveillance tools and weapons systems with no human oversight.”
oh yeah SamA’s statement was definitely PR-adjacent (OpenAI already got caught working with the US government and the people behind Discord’s age verification to create mass surveillance) but Trump’s threats against Anthropic are definitely real
(edit: https://youtu.be/zZ98DPIp0a4 source for the OpenAI surveillance thing)
yeah I suspected Scam Altman was full of shit (he already got caught working with Trump and the people behind Discord’s age verification for mass surveillance), but Trump’s threats against Anthropic are genuine, “major criminal consequences” imply that Anthropic workers may be in real danger of getting arrested (edited to add link)
so I guess that’s that for now.
I mean I wouldn’t be surprised if the DoD actually does follow through with their threats against Anthropic because that’s perfectly in character for this administration
UPDATE: Anthropic’s responded and is standing their ground on no mass surveillance and autonomous weapons
Just read this piece by Gary Marcus on this topic. Jesus fucking Christ this administration sucks so fucking bad. As a matter of fact ‘sucks bad’ is an understatement for the sheer amount of damage this administration is causing
while OpenAI deserves every bit of flack they get, it’s comical to see people who criticise OpenAI for creating a ‘war machine’ turn around and praise Anthropic when they were-by their own admission no less!-the first people to start using AI for military purposes